Dansons SA350 Compact Electric Stand Assist – 350 lb Capacity

Who it's for

People with limited lower-extremity strength who can still bear weight. Common in home care and residential settings for commode transfers, dressing, and pressure relief — the routine daily movements that otherwise take two carers or risk a fall.

Control

An electric actuator raises and lowers under button control, so a single caregiver can complete the transfer without physical strain and with both hands free to steady the person being moved.

Comfort

Adjustable cushioned knee pads set to the individual, and a standing platform that gives the feet a stable base throughout. Powered movement is also smoother than a hand pump, which a nervous or frail person will notice.

Where it fits

A 23.1″ closed base clears standard interior doorways and opens to just 29.8″ — narrow enough to work in a bathroom, which is where most stand transfers actually happen.

01 · Who It Suits

For people who can bear weight but not rise

This is the distinction that decides whether the SA350 is the right purchase. It is built for people with limited lower-extremity strength who are still capable of bearing weight — someone who can stand once they are up, but cannot get there unaided. Getting to a commode, changing clothes, shifting position to relieve pressure: these are the transfers it is designed around.

If the person cannot bear weight through their legs at all, they need a full-body patient lift instead. We would rather talk it through with you than sell you the wrong machine.

An electric actuator raises and lowers the boom under button control. The caregiver is not pumping a handle, which changes the arithmetic when the same transfer happens six or eight times a day — and changes it more when the caregiver is a spouse in their seventies rather than a professional.

Powered movement is also steadier than a hand pump. Someone anxious about being lifted will feel the difference in the first few inches.

02 · Operation

Powered, so the caregiver isn't the motor

03 · Support

Platform underfoot, pads at the knee

A standing platform gives the feet a stable base through the whole movement, and adjustable cushioned knee pads brace the shins so the person is supported rather than pulled upward by the arms. The pads adjust to the individual, which matters because the same unit used by two people at different heights will otherwise sit wrong on one of them.

Stand transfers usually happen in the tightest room in the house. The base closes to 23.1″ to clear a standard doorway and opens to only 29.8″ — roughly four inches narrower than a full patient lift, which is the difference between fitting beside a toilet and not. Base legs run 32.1″, so it turns in a space where a longer machine would have to be reversed out.

04 · Footprint

Narrow enough for a bathroom

05 · Sling & Attachment

Deluxe padded sling, four sizes

A BestSling Deluxe Padded Stand Assist Sling ships with the unit, in Small, Medium, Large or XXLarge Bariatric. A stand assist sling wraps the torso rather than cradling the whole body, so sizing is measured around the torso and getting it right matters more than on a full-body sling — too loose and it rides up under the arms. The 4-point spreader bar is standard.